Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1887-04-29

We'll, WHY, don't our leaders tell as what
they want done With this COMPOUNDED old
railroad. II is little wonder that these
great men who have been our leaders so
long, and whom beg you not to turn down,
have done nothing with the old thing for 80
MANY years past, but / expect that these
great measures take time. They have com
menced to promise us all right again, now and
have no doubt that they will do something
with this question when they make up their
minds as " what they can do In the mean
time they will ride on their free passes and
we will not be disturbed much, If any, after
the election. | had almost made up my
mind not TO fellow our old leaders any more,
net because sometimes they won't count
few votes, and sometimes maybe will count
too many In some ward way off yonder in
Baltimore, but because they would not make
this old railroad stop blowing off its steam
say after O'Clock at night But they are
promising fair again and with the splendid
appointments which German shows / reckon
will have to go with them. Irecollect the
troub.e we old Democrats had fixing up
Baltimore city once before when she tried
to run the whele State by her infamous
Know Moth ng elections. We used To think
pretty hard Of than, If you will cast your
eye back 10 these old days, but German and
Free Rasin were net living then 10 fix up
things nice and smooth, and have no avis
Or guns or things Of that sort. They let
everybody vote and what differences does 1t
make II few thousand Of their votes are
not counted as cast. Who Is hurt 50 long as
we have Prsttyman Ia office and Davis and
Pyles. Excellent gentlemen they all are.
Let us just mind eur swn business and let
elections in Baltimore alone and we have
patriotic pesple nearer than Washington
who will look cut and see that we have
good appointments, aye and print them too,
II necessary. / wonder If 1t would net be
better for US anyhow TO stop voting and turn
the whsle matter Of running the machine
over TO German and the lively politicians
who dance around him, Baughman, Null
vaney, Fred Talbot, Free Rasin, Ned War
field and all such as these. 1t would take
off large responsibility from eur shoulders
Let them say, 1--WE must have this man for
that purpose and that man for this purpose"
and then we all turn in and nominate them
and elect them. We would have an harmo.
NOUS party and no distracting elements In
trOduced. Ysu see, dent your
But il we are going to have primaries and
elections we ought to have them fair every
where, or else let our children know that
we made great asses Of ourselves when we
stepped in years ago and told the people Of
that ancient city by the eternal, every voter
shall have the chance Of voting once and
every ballot shall be counted as cast or we
will know the reason why" Well, now,
after all, times are different. We had no
great Railroad affairs TO fix then. Let these
Baltimore fellows have chance to send an.
ether delegation in their peculiar way and |
am rather inclined to think that somehow
or somehowothcr they will fix this railroad
or nix us, don't know which. But plant
my feet on the eintmsnts--Gsrman on
the big ones, On the little ones, Prettymen
and ALL There they are the world sees them,
and--wonders. Why, they could get no
bad people from this ceunty II they tried.
You who have been throwing your votes
away by not voting for our side, just come
over and vote right and see II il is not
counted every time and then note the har
mony OF the thing and the approving spiles
of our leaders. One word fiiore To those
soreheads The woods are full of men just
stepping up 10 you quietly and telling you
that their friends are pushing them 10 be
come candidates. Now have friend down
here little ways whose friends (so he tells
mel are pushing him very hard, and ii he
does yield aud comes out aud any sore
headed reformer tries to vote old Hill or
Awkward or any ether dead man on him,
just TO haze good appointments you knosc, there
is going 10 be a high old time, you bet He
may have il all to himself, but dit will get
there all the same" REGULAR.
Pooiesvle, April 18th, 1887.